Exploring The East-Coast of Sabah/Borneo - Part 2

At 5 o’clock PM our next river tour started. This time it was in a small boat, like a fishing boat. These boats have a special engine that is more environmental friendly and makes less sound, to make sure the animals won’t get scared. This is a good thing for the animals, but also for us, so you actually have more chance to see the animals. Unfortunately you see a lot of other boats passing by that are not environment & animal friendly!

We used the small tributaries to look for the Proboscis Monkey. Our guide found a lot! This incredible ‘Dutch Monkey’ is, just like the other animals we saw, under threat to loose its habitat. Now I probably have to explain why they are called the ‘Dutch Monkey’. The Indonesian people gave this nickname to them during Dutch colonialism, because they noticed that Dutch colonizers often had a big belly and a large nose. Thank you for the compliment haha :-)! We could see that each Proboscis Monkey family lives in one tree, with one male and several females. Around 6.30 PM we went back to our Sukau Rainforest Lodge, where we would stay the next 2 nights. We enjoyed a wonderful sunset by capturing it on photo. Before we could sit at the dinner table we had put on a Sarong, the traditional Malay clothing, which was provided in your room.

 

At 8.30 PM we could go for another river cruise, in the dark of course. We wouldn’t want to miss anything, so yes please! At first we saw the Kingfisher, a small and colorful bird. We could come actually very close and it just stayed nice and calm on its branch. We moved on and it was also incredible to see what the guide could capture in a very short time, by only using his torchlight! Next we saw 2 small baby crocodiles and one a bit bigger. One of the staff of the Sukau Lodge, an Australian crazy guy named Brett, tried to catch it, but this failed unfortunatly ;-). After this exhausting but impressive day it was time to go to bed. As soon as our head reached our lovely pillows we were captured in this nice, deep sleep!

to be continued...